I have not heard for my resources person in Hungary I will continue with my organization CHIP this website is intended to be a resource for policy makers, practitioners and activists concerned about childhood poverty.
CHIP
Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre
There is a crisis of childhood poverty
Over 10 million children under-five still die every yearcurrent rates of improvement, about one billion children will begrowing up with impaired mental development by 2020.i and atii
A child who is poorly nourished, experiencing high morbidity,has poor education and low aspirations may be unable to reversethese accumulated problems later in life.
is critical because poor nutrition in the first five years and
Good nutritional intake for under-fives, adolescents and pregnantwomen during pregnancy, which frequently occurs during adolescence, has devastating and irreversible effects which perpetuate poverty cycles. Enhancing nutrition will break very harmful and yet preventablepoverty transfers.
Economic growth and poverty
Most current economic policy aims to promote economicgrowth, and sees this as fundamental for poverty reduction.The relationship between growth and poverty reduction iscontroversial - taken together, most research suggests that it isdifficult to sustain the reduction of income and non-incomepoverty without growth. However, the extent to which growthcan reduce poverty depends largely on levels of inequality- growthcan be three times more effective in reducing poverty whereinequality is low than if it is highglobal inequality since the mid-1980s, this implies greater redistribution poverty. Three kinds of redistribution may have particularlystrong impacts on families and thus children in poverty:
• Countries with equitable distribution of land and access toeducation grow faster and convert growth into poverty reductionfaster because poor people are the drivers of growth, rather thanthe eventual beneficiaries. Adequately sized cash transfers canalso help poor people build up productive assets.
• - ensuring pro-poor growth growth will reduce poverty mostwhen it is concentrated in labour-intensive sectors with thepotential to employ unskilled or low-skilled people. In manycontexts this means agriculture and microenterprise. As growthin these sectors may also increase children’s workloads, they mayneed to be combined with policy and programmatic measures toensure children’s education.
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investing in basic services to promote human development, inparticular health, education and water and sanitation. As wellas its intrinsic benefits, and contribution to improved health,education is particularly critical in enabling poor people tobenefit from and drive economic growth.
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A child who is poorly nourished, experiencing high morbidity,Good nutritional intake for under-fives, adolescents and pregnant
women during pregnancy, which frequently occurs during adolescence, has devastating and irreversible effects which perpetuate poverty cycles. Enhancing nutrition will break very harmful and yet preventablepoverty transfers.
Economic growth and poverty
Most current economic policy aims to promote economic
growth, and sees this as fundamental for poverty reduction.
The relationship between growth and poverty reduction is
controversial - taken together, most research suggests that it is
difficult to sustain the reduction of income and non-income
poverty without growth. However, the extent to which growth
can reduce poverty depends largely on levels of inequality- growth
can be three times more effective in reducing poverty where
inequality is low than if it is high
global inequality since the mid-1980s, this implies
greater redistribution poverty. Three kinds of redistribution may have particularly
strong impacts on families and thus children in poverty:
•
Countries with equitable distribution of land and access to
education grow faster and convert growth into poverty reduction
faster because poor people are the drivers of growth, rather than
the eventual beneficiaries. Adequately sized cash transfers can
also help poor people build up productive assets.
• - ensuring pro-poor growth growth will reduce poverty most
when it is concentrated in labour-intensive sectors with the
potential to employ unskilled or low-skilled people. In many
contexts this means agriculture and microenterprise. As growth
in these sectors may also increase children’s workloads, they may
need to be combined with policy and programmatic measures to
ensure children’s education.
•
investing in basic services to promote human development, in
investing in basic services to promote human development, in
particular health, education and water and sanitation. As well
as its intrinsic benefits, and contribution to improved health,
education is particularly critical in enabling poor people to
benefit from and drive economic growth.
Alice,
ReplyDeleteYour posting and your research on the country of Hungry is very sad. Although the children on the Navajo reservation are not in this situation, many families are faced with the issues of their child not learning at school. Based on our school statistics, the behavioral situation at our school is on the rise, and it is unfortunate that our school have access to school but do really know why they go to school. Many of the Navajo students do not know the meaning or purpose behind education, all they know is that their parents want them to go to school because no one is at home to care for them.